Help save The Río Platáno peoples

Paradise in Peril from Skyship Films on Vimeo.

The Río Platáno Biosphere Reserve, Honduras – home to the highest level of tropical biodiversity in Central America, homeland of the Pech and Miskito Indians, and keeper of hundreds of unexplored archeological sites – is in danger. Non-indians are invading the Reserve from all sides, poaching endangered wildlife and fish, slashing and burning ancient forests to sow pastures, and forcing indigenous inhabitants off their ancestral lands. Paradise in Peril follows an expedition organized to document the destruction of this UNESCO World Heritage Site and collect testimony from the native peoples who rely on the Río Platáno for survival.

Show your support for the RPBR: facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-R%C3%ADo-Plátano-Biosphere-Reserve/138035182942758

According to Edgardo Benitez of the Green Alliance and the Platform in Defence of the Patuca River, the Tawahkas are under a particular amount of pressure . “This community of Tawahkas is at risk of extinction [if] the dam project at the Patuca River proceeds”.

Watch Paradise in Peril on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26209577
Show some support for the film on facebook: Friends of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Send a letter to Honduras: Don’t Dam the Patuca River!

http://intercontinentalcry.org/2011/paradise-in-peril-the-vanishing-rio-platano-biosphere-reserve/

USA:1000’s on prison hunger strikes

Thousands of inmates in at least 13 prisons across California’s troubled prison system have been on hunger strike for almost two weeks.

Many are protesting in solidarity with inmates held in Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s first super-maximum security prison, over what prisoners say are cruel and unusual conditions in “Secure Housing Units.” We play an audio statement from one of the Pelican Bay prisoners and speak to three guests:

Dorsey Nunn, co-founder of “All of Us or None” and executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and one of the mediators between the prisoners on hunger strike and the California Department of Corrections;

Molly Porzig, a member of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition and a spokesperson for Critical Resistance; and Desiree Lozoya, the niece of an inmate participating in the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, who visited him last weekend. [includes rush transcript]

watch program here

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/15/protests_grow_in_solidarity_with_california

15M Marchas se acercan a Madrid.

La Marcha Popular Indignada es una caminata de más de 15 rutas y sub-rutas procedentes de toda la península que confluirá el día 23 de julio en Madrid. Los indignados recogen el testimonio de la gente de los pueblos y ciudades por donde pasan para llevarlo a la capital. Así se hace una asamblea-coloquio con la gente de la zona..
Nos queda mucho camino por hacer !!!

Las marchas indignadas llegarán a Madrid a lo largo del día 23 en 5 (o 6) columnas y serán recibidas por los barrios:

Quienes vienen del Norte, en el parque del Norte (detrás del Hospital La Paz).
Quienes vienen del Noreste, en el Parque de San Blas.
Quienes vienen del Este, en Vallecas.
Quienes vienen del Sur, en Parquesur.
Quienes vienen del Noroeste, en el Parque del Oeste.

Las asambleas de barrio se están organizando para recibir a las personas que vienen andando y atenderles durante todo el día. Por la tarde, estas columnas partirán de cada barrio a la hora necesaria para llegar todas a la vez a la Puerta del Sol a las 21h. Se está preparando una bienvenida en Sol de la que se encargan las comisiones de Acampada Sol.

Desde Madrid hemos propuesto distintos lugares que se pueden habilitar para dormir y son las personas que vienen en marcha quienes están decidiendo dónde hacerlo.

Domingo 24 de julio

18.30 Gran manifestación. El recorrido y lema está pendiente de consensuar con todas las marchas.
Encuentro con todas las rutas: puesta en común de las aventuras vividas.

Lunes 25 de julio y 26 de Julio: I FORO SOCIAL DEL 15M

Se está organizando un programa de actividades de debate e intercambio de ideas. El objetivo es consensuar entre todas las personas que vienen a Madrid estos días los objetivos y acciones de las acampadas y el movimiento 15M para el próximo otoño en un foro social que permita profundizar y abrir las nuevas vías de trabajo cara al futuro del movimiento.

‘Murdoch sells Mass Murder’

from. .Murdoch Has Blood on His Hands

by David Swanson / July 15th, 2011

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:“Article 20

“1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.”

The Fox News Channel is endless propaganda for war, and various other deadly policies. As Robin Beste points out,

Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers and TV channels have supported all the US-UK wars over the past 30 years, from Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands war in 1982, through George Bush Senior and the first Gulf War in 1990-91, Bill Clinton’s war in Yugoslavia in 1999 and his undeclared war on Iraq in 1998, George W. Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with Tony Blair on his coat tails, and up to the present, with Barack Obama continuing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and now adding Libya to his tally of seven wars.

In this video, Murdoch confesses to having used his media outlets to support the Iraq War and to having tried to shape public opinion in favor of the war. That is the very definition of propaganda for war…….

……Bribery is dirty stuff. So is sneaking a peak at the private messages of murder victims. But there’s something even dirtier: murder, murder on the largest scale, murder coldly calculated and played out from behind a desk, in other words: war.

Murdoch is a major crime boss being threatened with parking tickets. I hope he’s brought down, but wish it were for the right reasons.

read more http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/07/murdoch-has-blood-on-his-hands/

World Bank top Climate Criminals

World Bank coal funding hits record high as it seeks climate finance control

World Bank funding for coal power stations has soared 40-fold over the last five years to hit a record high of $4.4 billion in 2010, new figures reveal.

Bank lending to coal-fuelled power projects significantly exceeds its financing of new renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, which stood at $3,128 billion in 2009 (the latest figure available).

‘This new analysis reveals incoherence at the heart of the World Bank’s thinking about energy,’ said Dr Alison Doig, Christian Aid’s Senior Adviser on Climate Change. ‘At the same time as it is seeking to gain control of the billions which will be channelled to developing countries to help them cope with global warming, the Bank is still lending staggeringly large and growing sums to finance coal-fired power.

‘Yet we know that coal is the dirtiest of all the fossil fuels – the one which most exacerbates the climate crisis which is having devastating effects on the lives of people living in poverty. We also know that by financing the building of coal power stations, the Bank is locking countries in to coal use for the next 40 to 50 years.’

Meanwhile NH3 fuel, which produces zero emissions when burned in easily converted petrol and diesel engines,, and is cheaper to produce, is still ignored and boycotted because it doesn’t offer a monopoly of big profits- Read more here https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/

9/11 victims hacked? Fox News to be closed?

Will Fox be closed down next? Will Murdoch go to jail?

As the fallout continues to germinate from perhaps the largest scandal in the history of modern media, News. Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) latest accuser in a string of Federal and Corporate bandwagon jumpers is the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.

MSNBC reports that the FBI will begin a private investigation seeking to ascertain whether persons employed by US-based outfits of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, “sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims,” according to a law enforcement officer.

According to the AP, “FBI’s New York office didn’t immediately comment Thursday. There was no immediate response to messages left for News Corp. and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan.”

When I asked my friends they said ‘Of course it did!’.. That’s what we expect from such cut throat nasty nazis!

Plus there was another recent case:

Fox News Hacks Missing dead Girls Cell Phone, deletes messages

by Shcuk » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:10 am

Hacking into the phones of politicians and celebrities is bad enough but a murdered girl? What a bunch of sick people.

But the journalists at the News of the World then encountered a problem. Milly’s voicemail box filled up and would accept no more messages. Apparently thirsty for more information from more voicemails, the paper intervened – and deleted the messages that had been left in the first few days after her disappearance.

According to one source, this had a devastating effect: when her friends and family called again and discovered that her voicemail had been cleared, they concluded that this must have been done by Milly herself and, therefore, that she must still be alive. But she was not. The interference created false hope and extra agony for those who were misled by it.

The Dowler family then granted an exclusive interview to the News of the World in which they talked about their hope, quite unaware that it had been falsely kindled by the newspaper’s own intervention. Sally Dowler told the paper: “If Milly walked through the door, I don’t think we’d be able to speak. We’d just weep tears of joy and give her a great big hug.”

The deletion of the messages also caused difficulties for the police by confusing the picture when they had few leads to pursue. It also potentially destroyed valuable evidence.

Read more HERE http://forum.houmatoday.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4799

CO2 Tax in Australia..Hope at last!

AUSTRALIA
Renewable Energy Wins, Controversially
By Stephen de Tarczynski

MELBOURNE, Jul 14, 2011 (IPS) – Australia has taken a major step in reducing its future greenhouse gas output with the announcement of a plan that will initially place a tax on every tonne of carbon pollution produced by hundreds of the country’s major emitters.

“Most Australians now agree our climate is changing. This is caused by carbon pollution. This has harmful effects on our environment and on the economy and the government should act,” said Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a televised address to the nation on Jul.10, just hours after the full details of the carbon scheme had been revealed.

The tax is the first step in the design that proponents say will see Australia reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent on 2000 levels, an increase from the previous target of a 60 percent cut.

Australia is responsible for around 1.47 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, similar to Iran and France, according to 2005 data from the World Resources Institute, the latest year for which statistics are available. Yet on a per capita basis, Australians are the biggest polluters among developed nations.

Despite this, there remains heated debate about how – and even if – Australia should reduce its carbon output.

Protests against implementing a carbon price and questioning human-induced global warming have been held in numerous Australian cities over the past few months – albeit often opposed in other areas by larger rallies calling for far-reaching government action. Climate scientists at leading universities have reported receiving death threats and abusive telephone calls.

Coal is big business here, where around ten percent of the world’s reserves are located.

Australia is the fourth largest coal producer in the world – behind China, the United States and India – yet the most prolific exporter, supplying about 27 percent of global demand. The burning of coal at power stations also accounts for more than 83 percent of this country’s own electricity generation.

The carbon tax plan includes a commitment to close the larger coal-fired power plants by 2020